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The weekend gap opened quietly, but the residual theme from Friday's payrolls print dominated early flows. The headline job gain beat, yet a cooler wage number and an uptick in the unemployment rate muddied the picture, leaving the dollar's post-data pop looking fragile. EUR/USD held the 1.0790 shelf and crept back toward 1.0815 as European desks came online. Gold, which whipsawed violently on the release, stabilised near 2,398 having defended the psychological 2,380 floor. The US 10-year settled at 4.30% after its knee-jerk spike, with markets still pricing a September cut as the base case. USD/JPY was the session's most volatile major, spiking to 152.70 before intervention chatter dragged it back to 152.00. Sterling clung to 1.2760, supported by hawkish BoE repricing. Risk appetite was constructive but unconvinced — equity futures firm, credit steady, and the VIX pinned low. The market's message: Friday's data was not clean enough to derail the easing narrative, and the dollar enters August on the back foot.